It’s a new summer now – Lauren Hemp says Lionesses have moved on from Euro glory – Soccer News

England ahead Lauren Hemp feels the Lionesses have moved on from their Euro 2022 triumph and are decided to refocus consideration on their World Cup marketing campaign.

Manchester Metropolis’s Hemp began each recreation for boss Sarina Wiegman throughout an historic run that ended, one 12 months in the past Monday, with England lifting their first main trophy at Wembley, igniting unprecedented curiosity in ladies’s soccer throughout the UK.

Because of accidents and retirements, the England boss’s World Cup squad options seven gamers who weren’t a part of that monumental match, whereas Rachel Daly, final summer time’s left-back, is a ahead for this competitors.

Requested if it was truthful to position sky-high expectations on her largely modified facet, Hemp stated: “I feel, as a crew, sure that occurred final summer time, what a implausible summer time it was, however clearly it’s a brand new summer time now, new challenges. You’ve seen in video games on this match that something can occur, however we’re prepared for every one.

“So yeah, it’s thrilling to be part of however clearly it’s an enormous match the place something can occur, in order a crew we’re simply specializing in every recreation because it comes.”

Norfolk-born Hemp, 22, was talking from the palm tree-lined Central Coast Stadium north of Sydney, house of the A-League’s Central Coast Mariners and the Lionesses’ coaching base for the rest of the match.

After beating Haiti 1-0 of their opener, England will now play Denmark within the New South Wales capital on Friday earlier than travelling to Adelaide to face China of their remaining group recreation on Tuesday.

There have been 49 locations separating world quantity 4 England from Haiti, however they’re simply 9 away from their extra acquainted European opponents Denmark, who Hemp stated characteristic “a really massive attacking menace” in ex-Chelsea ahead Pernille Tougher.

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The Lionesses started their Australian journey on the Sunshine Coast earlier than travelling to Brisbane for the Haiti match, and have now settled into the beachside city of Terrigal, New South Wales.

The total squad took half in Tuesday’s coaching session, which was attended by roughly 2500 locals, largely college teams, with many sticking round for autographs and photos with obliging gamers – although a robust contingent have been additionally hollering for Wiegman herself to pay them a go to.

The England boss has demanded her facet be extra “ruthless” after Georgia Stanway’s retaken penalty was the one aim towards Haiti.

Hemp stated: “I feel we’re all working actually onerous in coaching to ensure we’re being extra scientific, creating extra probabilities and clearly getting our aim proportion larger.

“However we all know it’s one thing we have to enhance on and we’re working actually onerous as a crew to ensure we’re prepared for the following recreation. We can be raring and able to rating some objectives.

“Now we have seen in video games that we’re able to doing that, so it’s not like we have now not scored earlier than. We’re all able to scoring. It’s nearly making it click on and getting these connections working.

“I feel clearly being at a World Cup is new for lots of us – loads of us have by no means been to 1 earlier than. It’s throughout the opposite facet of the world and I’m not making excuses but it surely’s vital that every recreation we construct on and we’ve seen that final summer time, so we’re greater than able to doing that.”